The next American flag to be planted on the moon has been placed in the hands of one of the last astronauts to walk on the lunar surface.
The Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September for a new role.
China’s Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa.
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA’s commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.
While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock in case of trouble.
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the double-lobed space rock.
NASA joined in the semiquincentennial celebrations this year by painting “America 250” on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon.
NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Beginning no earlier than August 2027, research volunteers will spend one year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, operating under isolated conditions expected during crewed missions to the Moon or Red Planet. Insights from this […]
Expedition 74 flight engineers Chris Williams and Jessica Meir conducted a seven-hour spacewalk to replace a wrist joint on the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robot arm on June 30, 2026.